[ROW] Meeting TOMORROW at 2 PM Eastern

[Nancy Werner]

Hi all!  Reminder of our call tomorrow at 2 pm Eastern. Conference Call-in Number: 703-570-5780<tel:(703)%20570-5780>   No PIN needed   Web conference:  https://meetings.dialpad.com/room/natoa

I did not hear from anyone with additional items for discussion tomorrow so we will start with Pam Berrian's suggestion (pasted below).  Feel free to bring your questions/concerns on other topics as well.  It's an open forum for discussion!

We are in Comcast franchise renewal sessions starting this month.   I don't plan to raise this with Comcast, yet, but I saw this media item and  it brought home just how blurred  the lines are --- Comcast is deemed to be raking in the ad revenues from Peacock and we know they are not paying a franchise  fee on the ad revenues .....yet it is Comcast the cable company interjecting themselves into that business by controlling price discounts and other Peacock benefits for their own cable subscribers ---- an UNLIKE situation to Netflix and Hulu, etc.

I hope we continue to watch this play out across the US to see what approach is applicable to us here, if any.  As we work on renewal details it would be nice to ensure we have the correct text to keep the franchise fee door open on this issue.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/comcast-cable-business-theme-park-recovery-drives-quarterly-revenue-2022-01-27/

I look forward to seeing or hearing from you tomorrow!


Nancy L. Werner
NATOA General Counsel
(703) 519-8035
nwerner at natoa.org<mailto:nwerner at natoa.org>
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